Civil Servants: Pay

Steve Webb: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many and what proportion of civil servants earn more than £50,000 per annum.

Angela Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	 Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:
	As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning, how many and what proportion of civil servants are paid more than £50,000 per annum. (300813).
	The Office for National Statistics collects the annual salaries of civil servants, as part of the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES).
	The requested data are attached at Annex A.
	
		
			  Annex A Number of individual civil servants paid more than £50,000 per annum( 1,2,3)  31 March 2008 
			   Greater than £50,000  Proportion to total (pe rcentage )( 3) 
			 Number of civil servants 19,490 38 
			 (1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. (2) Based on actual annual gross salaries. (3) At 31 March 2008 there were 515,660 permanent civil servants. As part of the 2008 data collection 3,620 salaries were not recorded by government departments for individual civil servants. These civil servants have been excluded from the proportion to total estimate.  Source:  Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES)